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The Beautiful Miscellaneous
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Narrated by:
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Richard Powers
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Written by:
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Dominic Smith
From the critically acclaimed award-winning author of The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre comes this moving story of a boy trapped in the shadow of his father's genius.
Nathan Nelson is the ordinary son of a brilliant physicist. From an early age, his father has doggedly prodded him toward greatness, enrolling him in whiz kid summer camps and teaching him college algebra. By the time Nathan is seventeen, hopes for a late-blooming prodigy seem dashed. Then, in the summer of 1987, everything changes. A tragic accident and ensuing coma leave Nathan with a profoundly altered mind that allows him to memorize vast amounts of information. Nathan's father, seeking an application for the new talent, sends him to a research institute where, amid misfits and savants, Nathan tries to find a purpose for the new way he perceives the world.
©2007 Dominic Smith (P)2007 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Critic Reviews
“With an exquisite ear not just for language but for emotional truth as well, Dominic Smith has written an ambitious and strikingly unusual tale about what it’s like to grow up in the shadow of a brilliant father and under the force of his expectations. I finished this book in awe of Smith’s imagination—and of his enormous heart.”
(Julia Glass, New York Times bestselling author of Three Junes and The Whole World Over)“[Smith] conjures Nathan’s colorful, mysterious new existence with vivid detail. The real story in this touching, gracefully wrought novel lies around the edges of the plot. It is really about the weight of family dreams and expectations.”
(Boston Globe)“Fantastic…an utterly fresh look at how a child can grow beyond parental expectations and find the genius of being himself.”
(People)“Garcia, a stage actor by training, treats Smith’s novel as an extended monologue to be performed, summoning the moods and sensations of its prose via subtle shifts of emphasis. The result is a performance-driven audiobook, rendered in minimalist fashion.”
(Publishers Weekly)“This unusual, gorgeously written novel is filled with pleasures.”
(Booklist (starred review))“[A] finely modulated second novel…a luminous addition to novels about fathers and sons.”
(Kirkus Reviews)